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GIPSY CHILDREN IN ENCAMPMENT PROVIDED BY NATURE |
AGED BEAU BRUMMEL OF CAMEROON |
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| The habitat of the Bisharin is nominally between the Red Sea and the Nile, but their true home is where they pitch their goat-skin tents. From oasis to oasis they wander in search of trade or pastures. Theirs is an unhampered existence, and with the Nubian Desert as a playground it is small wonder that these sable sons and daughters of the Sudan grow up into restless nomads | Albeit his venerable head is destitute of hair, the deficiency is covered to a nicety by the tight-fitting cap which, massed with quaint ornaments, is one of the distinctive headdresses of the natives of Fumban |